LOS ANGELES — Curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer - Graiwer, the artists and works in About Face
employ ideas of scale, zoom, and cropping to complicate figuration and portraiture in relation to abstraction.
Not exact matches
Revisiting an
idea he first
employed in his late - seventies project «128 Photographs
of a Painting», he divided the work's surface into two vertical sections, then halved those halves, and so on, he had each work printed to his desired
scale, so that we might contemplate what have become remarkable horizontal, rhythmic fields
of fine lines, oscillating with vibrations
of color, the largest
of which stretches over ten meters, as seen on the gallery's first floor.
Adam Brent's large -
scale sculptural installation, The Ballad
of Crook Horn Road,
employs the slick language
of suburban architecture to explore
ideas of domesticity, memory and childhood.
Employing illusion, manipulation
of scale, and painstakingly rendered surfaces, they are obsessive depictions
of essential
ideas that connect to collective experiences.
Remote work is growing in popularity on a global
scale as companies shift their
ideas, with more than 38 %
of employed people in business, management and financial industries working from home, according to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.